Shrimp Scampi Pizza

I was working with Uptown Social in Charleston, South Carolina, and I wanted the essence of shrimp scampi—garlic, white wine, lemon, and butter—as a pizza base. Given the part of the country, I knew the shrimp would be world-class, but I didn’t realize how good. I’d marinated shrimp during testing, but when Chef Jonathan Kaldas saw my recipe he said to me, “Taste these before you marinate them.”

He took shrimp we’d gotten that morning from a